State Announces Funding To Repair Culvert In Lewisboro

LEWISBORO, NY — To deal with severe weather and crumbling infrastructure, New York officials have pledged another hefty amount of assistance for local governments to work on some of their most urgent bridge and culvert issues. Grants are going to 24 projects in the Hudson Valley, five of which are in Westchester County.

The state's BRIDGE NY initiative, which this go-round includes $60.1 million total for the Hudson region, aims to make New York's local communities stronger, its infrastructure more resilient and more equipped to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

It also helps tackle the long list of bridges and culverts in bad shape.

The project in Lewisboro:

• $1.426 million to the Town of Lewisboro for the replacement of the Oscaleta Road culvert.

One in three bridges in the United States needs major repair work or should be replaced, according to the latest report from the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, which ranked New York 12th for the percentage of structurally deficient bridges. Rockland was the only New York county outside NYC with any bridges on the annual report's list of 200 Most Traveled U.S. Structurally Deficient Bridges:

• Interstate 87 over Rte 303
• Interstate 87 over Route 59 WB, Rte 59